What was found
CENTER CARGO, STA 1536 LONGERON 49L SPLICE FOUND CRACKED A5A7114-511. CRACKED LONGERON 49L SPLICE REMOVED AND REPLACED WITH NEW FABRICATED SPLICE PER DWG A5A7114 AND SRM 51-33-01 VOLUME II. REPAIR CLASSIFIED AS MAJOR PER GMM 6-2-100.
- Difficulty date
- May 30, 2005
- Submitted
- June 1, 2005
- Operation
- Air carrier
- Aircraft
- N584FE
- Make and model
- Doug MD11
- Aircraft serial
- 48436
- Aircraft time
- 45,706 hours, 9,057 cycles
- System (JASC)
- 5320 · Fuselage Miscellaneous Structure
- Part
- Splice
- Condition
- Cracked
- Location
- Fuselage
- Stage of operation
- IN
- How discovered
- V
- Nature of condition
- O
- Precautionary procedure
- K
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